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Fake want ads make the Dept. of Labor look suspicious

Michigan blogger “Citizen Carrie” wrote Wednesday about her suspicions that the Department of Labor, through contractors, is fudging labor statistics and fraudulently helping companies hire H1-B workers even as the US Chamber of Commerce is calling for the cap on H1-B visas to be raised. From the sources she cites, the fake ads have been around since 2004 (at least.)

It appears that the Department of Labor, through its Team Exceed contractor, is working hand-in-hand with employers to post phony job ads in order to fulfill the job advertisement requirements for purposes of helping foreign workers obtain their Green Cards for permanent resident status. As Kim Berry describes in his Programmers Guild website, these positions have already been filled by H-1B employees. The jobs are posted, apparently with the help of American taxpayers, simply to collect resumes so they can been be nitpicked to death in order to disqualify every American worker who applies.

Let’s walk through one of the job listings, the Network and Computer Systems Administrators positions in Troy, MI, to see what’s happening. Take the number that’s at the bottom of the ad, 05179-88248, and plug it at the Department of Labor Backlog Public Disclosure page, which allows you to track the status of an H-1B’s application. Type the “D” prefix in front of your number, and you find out that the status for this particular case number is “In Progress”. This is probably a phony job ad for a position that is already filled by an H-1B employee.

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Does anyone else see any conflicts of interest between the Employment & Training Division of the Department of Labor running phony jobs on behalf of H-1B workers, while the same Division, in its own website, claims that it “…administers federal government job training and worker dislocation programs, federal grants to states for public employment service programs, and unemployment insurance benefits”?

Go to Carrie’s post to read juicy details.
Also: Sham Help Wanted ads for H-1b PERM processing in the Sacramento Bee
Discussion on Dice.com
Discussion on Indeed.com
From Indeed.com:

LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT TEAM EXCEED IS - ONCE AND FOR ALL!

Team Exceed is the government contractor working for the Department Of Labor under foreign labor certification program. Legal foreign workers have to go through this process to obtain permanent resident status (or Green Card). According to the immigration law DOL has to advertise these jobs for 45 days to collect resumes of all possible applicants. Since the job that is being advertised is already filled in you WILL NOT receive any replies. I would guess that the purpose of such advertising by the Team Exceed is to count the number of qualifying US workers for that particular job.

THE BOTTOM LINE - DO NOT SEND YOUR RESUMES TO THE TEAM EXCEED POSTINGS as you will not be employed by them - it is not even a “physical” company that can hire you. Save yourself time and efforts.

I thought I’d let everyone know.

Also:

Whoever is or was Team Exceed is also posting jobs as Tr2-AW. I did a Superpages.com distance search for employment / staffing agencies at or near the Pearl street address. There’s no such business at Suite 510. Another agency was listed on a different floor at that address but the phone number given was not in service.